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Green, Kentucky...Strawberry Capital of the World?
(May 1 - June 30, 2008)
Although Warren County’s earliest pioneers often mentioned
the wild strawberries native to the area, strawberry cultivation
began here in earnest after 1880. Founded in 1908, the Warren
County Strawberry Growers’ Association was the first
of several cooperatives founded in the county. All of the
strawberry activity, during May and June each year, led one
local radio station to air a jingle calling Bowling Green
the world’s strawberry capital. Indeed for several decades
Warren County’s four strawberry cooperatives picked
more strawberries than any other county in the state.
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& Museum, Western Kentucky University, 1906 College Heights
Blvd. #11092, Bowling Green, Kentucky 42101-1092.
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